continued fraction
a fraction whose denominator contains a fraction whose denominator contains a fraction, and so on.
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An efficient way to find its rational approximations is to use continued fractions, which alternate being slightly less and slightly more than the irrational value.
Can You Solve March Mathness? | Zach Wissner-Gross (riddlercolumn@gmail.com) | March 26, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightIf a or b is unity, a/b cannot be converted into a continued fraction with unit numerators, and the above method fails.
The continued fraction is therefore incommensurable, and cannot be unity.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) | Augustus de MorganHe had not then the continued fraction, a mode of representation which he gave the next year in his work on the square root.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) | Augustus De MorganThe simple continued fraction is both the most interesting and important kind of continued fraction.
Similarly the continued fraction given by Euler as equivalent to (e - 1) (e being the base of Napierian logarithms), viz.
British Dictionary definitions for continued fraction
a number plus a fraction whose denominator contains a number and a fraction whose denominator contains a number and a fraction, and so on
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